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How to use the word severe in a Sentence?

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As disruptive and as damaging as this year’s flooding has been, it’s still nowhere near close to what we foresee is the plausible worst-case scenario, we know that climate change is essentially putting the weather on steroids and giving us greater and greater chances of seeing these extremely heavy precipitation events and severe floods, even as we also see more severe droughts and that in the same part of the world.

– Daniel Swain

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1 year ago

Let’s be clear, life without the possibility of parole is a severe punishment, you are condemned to die in a Florida prison.

– Maria DeLiberato

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1 year ago

He’s suffering and he’s got an infection. He has severe periodontal disease. He has holes in his mouth that bleed constantly. He’s lost 130 pounds.

– Katherine Swidan

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1 year ago

These very strong wind fields, very strong surface cyclones developing can contribute to heightened severe weather potential as those systems get farther east.

– Bill Bunting

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1 year ago

So to see that DC had the highest morbidity was not surprising to me at all, we can’t deny the fact that there’s a huge racial disparity, and so I suspect that states that have higher populations of Black pregnant moms, who tend to have a higher risk of morbidity and mortality, are likely to have higher numbers of severe morbidity.

– Zsakeba Henderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the data is based on billing codes and not patient charts, it’s an excellent start to understanding the causes of maternal morbidity by state and the disparities that exist, this can help states and healthcare institutions begin to address and work to decrease the rates of severe maternal morbidity that are affecting the patients they care for.

– Doee Kitessa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This study can help hospitals and states target quality improvement initiatives toward the leading indicator of severe maternal morbidity, while the data is based on billing codes and not patient charts, it’s an excellent start to understanding the causes of maternal morbidity by state and the disparities that exist.

– Doee Kitessa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’ve seen these patterns before where there is just a repeat of severe weather in generally the same area, we can’t change past outcomes, but what we can do is encourage everyone to be ready for the next one.

– Bill Bunting

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1 year ago

April is coming at us like a freight train. And of course, it always screams severe weather across this part of the country. all the right ingredients come together in April to make April typically our worst month for severe weather.

– Michael Berry

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1 year ago

There have been well over a dozen higher end severe events, that’s like enhanced risks, Level 3 of 5 or higher, just since November, it reminds me of some of the more historically active years that we’ve seen in the past.

– Bill Bunting

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1 year ago

It’s like making a cake, all the ingredients are there, the forcing aloft, the instability due to heating and the moisture source, it’s the perfect ingredients for severe weather.

– Michael Berry

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1 year ago

All the right ingredients come together in April to make April typically our worst month for severe weather.

– Michael Berry

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1 year ago

Climate change is causing cities to sink, and our current infrastructure makes us even more vulnerable to severe flooding.

– Kotchakorn Voraakhom

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1 year ago

Our planet is already reeling from severe climate impacts, from scorching heat waves and destructive storms to severe droughts and water shortages.

– Ani Dasgupta

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1 year ago

The study is another way for people to recognize that climate change affects everyone, it’s not just about the temperature rising on average around the world, it’s the actual weather events that have severe impacts on people that may be increasing in intensity and frequency.

– Matthew Rodell

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1 year ago

What I feel more confident about is that as the world warms, we’re going to see the greater global intensity of all the wet and dry events increase, meaning they’re going to be more frequent, larger and more severe in total, what happens in a regional sense is a little bit more difficult to say with certainty.

– Matthew Rodell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As this severe weather continues to impact more residents across northern Nevada I again urge all Nevadans to stay safe, travel cautiously, and to follow all local guidance. State and federal partners will continue to monitor local damage and will work quickly to assess needed repairs across northern Nevada.

– Joe Lombardo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What is the likely intent of the authorities in levying such a serious and severe charge? It seems to be pretty clear that what they’re trying to do is to deter additional destruction of property and perhaps injury to persons.

– Ronald Carlson

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1 year ago

This issue has been incredibly important to Meta for a very, very long time because the damage done is quite severe in the context of teens or adults, it can do damage to their reputation and familial relationships, and puts them in a very vulnerable position. It’s important that we find tools like this to help them regain control of what can be a very difficult and devastating situation.

– Antigone Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason we don’t have enough police officers is because we are asking them to be social workers, therapists and marriage counselors, i’m actually investing in actually having social workers, therapists to show up on the front line, to actually free up law enforcement to deal with the more severe crime that happens in the city of Chicago.

– Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The long-term survival of skiing and other winter recreation will depend on nations lowering their carbon emissions to avoid the more dire consequences and severe warming in the future.

– Robert Wilson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we say talk therapy, we’re talking about different kinds of therapy, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT. CBT has been shown to be very effective in combination with medication. And psychotherapy is an essential component to treat someone who has severe depression, the good news is that there are very good treatments for depression and there are response rates that are as high as 80% of people within four to six weeks. So I am very hopeful that he will make a full recovery.

– Daniel Bober

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we all worry about is a new variant that has immune escape like Omicron had on the prior variants, people like to hope the evolution of the virus will lead to less severe forms, but that’s not a guarantee. So we just need to stay vigilant for the possibility of a different variant.

– Chris Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The widespread consensus among mental health professionals is that solitary confinement, for the overall majority of mentally ill prisoners, places them at severe risk of additional harm.

– Craig Haney

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1 year ago

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